Introduction

InCube Chess is a new stage in evolution of the classic chess game, which one is transferred in three-dimensional space. Overcoming limitations of two-dimensional classic chess, InCube Chess saves their traditions and fundamentals, but brings in a lot of new possibilities. The transfer of the game to the three-dimensional space is resulted to explosive increase the number of moves and variants of game course, that brings to a new tactical and strategic capabilities.

The InCube Chess interface is a simple and intuitively lucid. If you possess experience in the classic chess game, you will be mastered in InCube Chess for minimum time. The main difference is, that the two-dimensional chessboard is transformeds into three-dimensional game space (Cube, ChessCube), and fields from two-dimensional board are transfigureds into three-dimensional cells. The game also has a set of absolutely new possibilities. Now you can combat against the several opponents in one ChessCube, to conduct a command game, to play on the local network and on the Internet with any opponent or robot.

Our InCube Chess program and modern computer equipment will help you to orient in three-dimensional game space by means of different shifts. You can examine "battle field" in miscellaneous projections or "enter" inside of any figure. You can regulate such parameters, as cells and lines highlighting or "fog" thickness, going to predefined viewpoints or set new ones, etc...

The description of the essence and principles of the project

The game "InCube Chess" represents a veritable three-dimensional chess (i.e. the realization, extended in the third degree of freedom) of widely-known chess.

Two-dimensional game field in a frame X - Y (i.e. the chess board of 8x8 cells) is extended in the third measurement (the axes Z is added). So the game field is converted into game space, in a cube, inside which there is a struggle between the players.

Thus, the game space represents a cube 8x8x8, (further for a label of a game space the term ChessCube can be used) which consists of 512 blocks-"cells".

The pieces, except for usual two-dimensional chess directions, can also move in directions, originating in new cubed space degree of freedom, observing general rules of movement and interaction of ordinary chess pieces. That is in a vertical plane, or in vertical and horizontal planes simultaneously (i.e. on planes conducted through edges of "cells" in ChessCube).

Depending on a game live mode, after the choice of piece, on fields, in which it is possible to move, appears the spesial pointers. The piese can be moved by the indication (direct or by input of coordinates from the keyboard) of the aim fields.

Depending on a live mode of complexity, the pieces which have appeared under strike also can be selected by colour. The move is executed by pressing an accessible field by the mouse pointer.

The game has numerous switches for modes of ChessCube and game fields representation.

The remaining rules of game in base variant are similar to classical chess with allowance for adding the third coordinate and corresponding amount of degrees of freedom to movements of pieces.